THE TRUMPIAN AXIS OF INEPTNESS

 

LES NOUVELLES - 2025

NOVEMBRE

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(Affichages faits sur Linked In, en date du dimanche 2 novembre 2025)

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After having been the largest country in Africa, Sudan was first divided in two parts, Sudan and South Sudan. Now, that country may end up split in three parts, with the rump Sudan State becoming two separate political entities, one centered on Khartoum, the Nile valley and the Red Sea coast, the other centered on the Darfour provinces and most of the Kordofan region, possibly under the name of West Sudan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78z025dze4o

On trouvera, ci-bas, un article très instructif publié par le South China Morning Post (Hong-Kong) sur ce qui sous-tend l'expansion de la présence économique de la Chine en Afrique. Que cette présence ait d'abord été plus forte en Afrique orientale, le long de la façade maritime longeant la mer Rouge et l'océan Indien, est assez normal, pour des raisons assez évidentes, relevant de la simple proximité géographique et du coût relativement abordable du transport de marchandises par navires. Que cette présence économique chinois s'étende maintenant de plus en plus à l'Afrique centrale et à l'Afrique occidentale tient pour beaucoup à trois grandes raisons:

A) une première qui relève de la géologie et des connaissances grandissantes que nous avons des richesses minières qui se trouvent en abondance dans les profondeurs du sous-sol africain;

B) une deuxième qui relève de l'économie, notamment au niveau de la transition énergétique découlant des changements climatiques en cours et amenant une demande croissante pour certains éléments particuliers, tels que le nickel, le cobalt, le cuivre, le lithium, le fer, l'aluminium, l'hydrogène, etc.; et

C) une troisième qui relève de la politique et des changements qui prennent place actuellement au plan des rapports de force mondiaux et de la reconfiguration des relations que cela entraîne entre certains pays et groupes de pays, tout particulièrement en ce qui touche la guerre du Moyen-Orient.

L'issue favorable de celle-ci, si elle se confirme, devrait normalement faciliter la création de voies terrestres de transport et de communication à travers le territoire israélo-palestinien et le territoire égyptien (péninsule du Sinaï), rendant ainsi plus aisé et moins onéreux le déplacement des marchandises et des personnes entre l'Afrique, d'une part, et l'Asie, d'autre part, ainsi qu'avec toute la partie orientale de l'Europe, surtout si des voies ferrées à haute-vitesse y sont un jour construites. Les ressources minières et énergétiques sont des catalyseurs de richesses potentielles, qu'elles se trouvent en Afrique, sur la surface des fonds océaniques ou, un jour, peut-être, sur la Lune ou sur Mars. L'important, dans le cas de l'Afrique, principale pouponnière de l'humanité, avec le Moyen-Orient et le sous-continent indien, c'est que le développement économique ne se fasse pas uniquement au bénéfice des pays étrangers et de leurs entreprises, mais aussi des populations locales. Ce sont aux gouvernements africains d'y veiller.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3330354/science-drives-chinas-westward-expansion-africa?share=lGuRc6TO%2FMhWiYtVM6gTM5Pj2HVwyXLYorIn2oYwCq4qbVfhGRmPSfc%2BdHSOAgpFruc3HfriDMaGsZG6Kn2aUEnuLLZYHBodTP8Kp8GKsjCQTwk7bhPH2g%2FTcwv4s6lc5C2FNVySJF2ijpQVLnqJHQ%3D%3D&utm_campaign=social_share

This is madness. Listen to Fox News and you will remember the not so ancient time when Reagan created instant heroes out of the blue, that he called "Freedom Fighters" (!), using Somoza's bunch of thugs, in order to throw them against the Nicaraguan people, who had just ousted a US-backed dictator, after years of suffering, with the hope of overthrowing the new Sandinista government. The US mercenaries failed in their endeavour, but not without creating all sorts of turmoil, ravaging a large part of that small country, and killing untold numbers of innocent people over a period of many years, in what was just one of a long series of US-engineered, fake wars. Maybe what the United States needs is another Vietnam, but this one much closer to home...

https://x.com/mad_corean/status/1981815736952926494?s=40

Instead of starting another artificial war, this one in Venezuela, the Trumpians should think about the growing number of those who can barely feeds themselves in the United States. America deserves better. Americans deserves better. The world deserves better. Old Columbia must be crying somewhere, thinking of the monsters her fifty children are slowly becoming.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/food-benefits-federal-shutdown

Things are shaping up, slowly, in the growing contest of will between Washington and Caracas. So, it seems that the US has a close ally in theatre, with the apparent support of Trinidad and Tobago, an ex-British colony, while Venezuela may possibly count on the support of Colombia, another country being bullied by America, and of Russia, itself supported by Iran and North Korea. To the East of Venezuela, Guyana, another British ex-colony, is likely to stay neutral, given its small size. As for Brazil, to the South, it will probably do the same, but follow closely the way things will keep evolving, just in case.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-condemns-military-provocation-by-cia-trinidad-tobago-2025-10-26/

Two US military aircraft, a fighter and a chopper, destroyed on the same day, in the same place, near the same ship, at just a few minutes interval??? Come on... How do you spell c o v e r u p in English?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/navy-aircraft-crash-south-china-sea?cid=android_app

Ask yourself who is first and foremost in the mind of the Trumpians, the soldiers or the poor...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7d9j7p5qo

Worthwhile reading about the Israelo-Palestinian conflict's deep roots and challenges.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/the-three-core-myths-driving-israels-war-on-palestine/

Things continue to escalate in the Carribean. Trinidad and Tobago has chosen to side with America, along with Guyana, while Brazil will probably stay neutral in that conflict. Another neighbor, the Netherlands (because of the Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao islands), is likely to do the same thing, but will possibly find ways to assist covertly the United States, being a faithful NATO ally. As for Colombia, Trump's own ineptness will probably prompt it to side covertly with Venezuela, providing a possible avenue for external help, in all likelihood from Russia and other countries.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/28/venezuela-suspends-trinidad-and-tobago-gas-accord-over-us-warship-visit

Think about it: Trump wants to be recognized as a peacemaker for a war that he is likely to have initiated himself, or at the very least allowed or permitted, between Thailand (a US treaty ally) and Cambodia (a country friendly to China and attacked by Thailand). Something similar can be said to the Israelo-Gazan conflict: Trump himself didn't started it, of course, and Biden sided with Israel, even though sometimes reluctantly. That being said, the US actively helped the creation of Israel, was (and remain) a key ally of it, poured untold billions into its economy and military apparatus, and supported its genocidal effort all through the Gazan War. And let's not forget that Trump, who recognized the annexion of the Golan and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, is no more a friend of Palestine than Israel is, but he still wish to be seen as a peacemaker in the Middle East... The present Venezuelian situation is proof of Trump's duplicity and hypocrisy. The self-styled peacemaking expert clearly wish to invade (or at least) attack a sovereign country, labeled a "narcotraficante" state the same way the Gaza de facto governement was labeled a "terrorist" government by complacent Western countries eager to sell their weapons to a very "peaceful" Israel...

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy40n3ykx93o?utm_source=STMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Geoscape&emh=203e2b52bb7cdda2cf72b78cbe625321bed7b7f7ac3b146f04dc71f02dc50bce&lctg=67f8fd055605f7af030a90ba&utm_term=%5BAudience%5D%20-%20Geoscape

Peacemaking America really seems to be preparing to bring "freedom" to Venezuela, the way it did to Irak in 2003... Just look at Irak now to see how the whole foolish madness may end. The American invasion didn't brought peace or freedom to Irak, and it certainly didn't contribute to building there a liberal democracy out of thin air. What it really brought to Irak was wholesale destruction, millions of dead, a pillaged economy, many destroyed cities, a bitterly divided population, and a whole country reduced to beggar status, in the sense that the Iraki government is now begging its "liberators" to leave as soon as possible, while nuclear-armed America stay nevertheless, unable to abandon its beloved military bases, and its even more beloved oil assets, showing its true, repugnant, and ugly face. Next in line in a long series of countries attacked through fabricated wars, is now Venezuela. It's government is certainly not perfect, its democracy is about as flawed as America's democracy has become itself, Maduro is probably as bad and unpopular a leader as Trump himself is (outside his coterie of sycophantic, dum, ignorant, half-fascist admirers), but even then he remains at the helm of a long-established country, with a well-entrenched governement, and a large and well-equiped armed forces. Trump, at the head of his own Trumpian government, made up of members of his own fan-club, also known as the Republican Party, may be leading America toward its worst defeat ever, worse than Korea, worse than Vietnam, and worse than Afghanistan. The article below hints at covert military aid that the Russian Federation may be starting to give to its Caracas ally, amid rising tensions in the Carribean theatre, and building up of of military forces and multiplication of training exercises on both sides. It is likely to be just a beginning, and not just by Russia, since Iran's and North Korea's help are probably just around the corner, avalaible on demand, while China's vast economic might remains in reserve, untapped for the moment.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7388756601517670400/

That island, Margarita, is certainly a potential target for small-scale infiltration, or even for an eventual large-scale invasion...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7386533447563100160/

Interesting and informative reading, if disturbing and troubling. This information came from what appear to be an Argentinian military and diplomatic source, probably pro-Trump, possibly pro-Milei, obviously anti-Castro, and presumably anti-Maduro.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7388699151158390784/

The relations between the many countries of Latin America and the United States are long-standing and complex, sometimes happy, sometimes bloody. These days, Mexico is economically close to the U.S., and thus dependent of its economy, while developing fast and industralizing even faster, helped in large part by American (and Chinese) capitalism, always in search of lower-cost populations where it makes sense to export their plants and factories. Argentine, at the southernmost extremity of Hispano-America, seems to be transforming in the opposite way, being politically dependent of the United States and economically protected by the Trumpian government, eager to have as an ally a country large enough and powerful enough to be able to counter-balance Brazil, an emergent and populous country that is part of the BRICS and moderately pro-Chinese. It follows that, for the time being, the Sino-American rivalry by proxy is likely to take place in the vast geographical space that extend between these gigantic Latin American countries: Mexico in the Northwest, Argentine in the South and Brazil in the Southeast. The recent admission of Cuba and Bolivia into the BRICS economic association, as partners (and not full members like Brazil), the important economic relations that are deepening between China, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru (Chançay port, rail projects, etc.), and this current Venezuelian crisis, are all signs that this rivalry is just starting and is likely to continue and intensify. So far, the rivalry between Beijing and Washington, in the American hemisphere, has remained in the fields of diplomatic argumentation, economic competition, informational warfare, and political agitation. The way the Trumpian government choose to navigate forward will determine if the military field will be added to all the others...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7388699151158390784/

Trump is such a gentleman, such a charmer... His only wish is to rape Japan, defraud it, and steal from it hundreds of billions of US dollars, in order to build up his industrial base, under threat of military abandon. What's wrong with that? What is surprising, though, is that South Korea is seeing through his scheme and that she does not. Maybe her financial advisers will enlighten her eventually about the kind of honey trap Trump is using to ensnare Japan and South Korea, but also Canada, Britain, the European Union, Australia and others...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7388993053619003392/

Can please somebody tell Trump, the chief American right-wing strongman, to stop courting the new Japanese right-wing strongwoman, and calls his fellow Israeli right-wing strongman, in order to put some sense into him, so that the killing machine known as Tsahal, made up maibly of young aspiring right-wing strongmen and right-wing strongwomen, stop massacring Palestinian civilians? I mean please?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-netanyahu-strikes.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

L'article ci-dessous est intéressant, bien qu'un peu long. Les États balançoires (Swing States) dont il est question ici sont surtout une extension globale d'un concept local d'origine américaine et don't la pertinence se limite essentiellement au système politique étatsunien. Par contre, les pays de l'Axe trumpien, eux, c'est-à-dire les États-Unis, Israël, l'Argentine, le Japon et les pays nordiques européens (soit, en gros, les pays otaniens les plus réceptifs au message militariste du président américain actuel, ainsi que les plus susceptibles d'être influencés par ses idées économiques ineptes, ses conceptions sexuelles à la Epstein, ses visées politiques délirantes et ses préférences très discutables, assez marquées et vaguement douteuses envers les Européens, surtout les hommes blancs qui sont plus grands que la moyenne et ont à la fois les yeux bleus et les cheveux blonds...), constituent une réalité bien concrète et de plus en plus inquiétante. Les quatre grandes soeurs de tradition catholique que sont le Portugal, l'Espagne, la France et l'Italie sont les mieux placées pour sauver l'Europe continentale du péril brun, celui que fait planer les pays de l'Axe, sauce 2025. Le Portugal a des relations privilégiées avec le Brésil et peut s'y faire entendre, alors que l'Espagne commence visiblement à en avoir marre de l'OTAN, surtout maintenant que les Trumpiens veulent s'en prendre au Vénézuela et a la Colombie pour des motifs pas toujours honorables et assez minces. Pendant ce temps, par contre, l'Italie s'en fout et la France se voile les yeux, préférant garder son regard fermement et résolument fixé sur la ligne bleue du Dniepr, comme si la Grande Muette des temps modernes, i.e. le gouvernement français, y voyait les Vosges... Lorsqu'un jour prochain, espérons-le, nos cousins français cesseront de vouloir singer les Ricains et qu'ils se décideront à prendre la tête de la grande révolte contre cette OTAN qui américanise l'Europe depuis quatre générations, la vague brune commencera à se résorber et le tsunami des pays trumpiens deviendra une vaguelette sans importance. L'éléphant néo-fasciste deviendra peut-être même une cinquantaine d'éléphanteaux inoffensifs. L'équivalent d'un tigre de parchemin, comme dirait probablement Mao...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/losing-swing-states

Below, you will find an interesting analysis of the current Caribbean crisis, involving Venezuela and the United States, but also Colombia, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, in the immediate neighborood, plus Russia and Britain, somewhat more distantly. According to the Axis of Trumpian countries, the growing crisis is a legitime response to a genuine threat, and America is at the same time fighting for democratic freedom and battling against the monstruous Drug-Lords ruling Caracas, and (who knows?) possibly Bogota too. According to the author of the article, it is more a matter of Trumpians would-be War-Lords with an eye to the Nobel Peace Price of next year, by attacking, maiming and killing as many bad guys as possible, without producing proof or evidence of their evilness, and also hoping to obtain a lot of cool promotional videos for the next midterm elections. Whatever happen, Canada should make sure it is not drag into such a mess...

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/gunboat-hypocrisy-in-the-caribbean/

Below, you will find a revealing article about the complexity of India's relationship with China and America, tied to the first by political (SCO) and economic (BRICS) links, tied to the second by prudence, caution and desire for equanimity. India cannot ignore China, its immediate neighbor to the North, nor can it underestimate America's capacity for economic resilience, despite its erratic, incoherent and inept political leadership, or turn its back to Europe's sincere wish for peaceful trading relations through the Middle East. India is a half-reluctant Chinese ally, and certainly not a member of the Trumpian Axis of Nordic, lily-white countries, covering most of Northern Europe and including the Anglospherian countries, plus conquered and culturally Americanized Japan. Today's Axis countries are probably not a lasting coalition, given the ineptness lying at its very center, in the person of Trump, the Unholy Holiness, but the growing, Stalin-like cult of personality that is slowly spreading around him may survived the passing of the worst US president to ever hold office since Nixon. As for today's Allied countries, organized in concentric circles around China, they stand a better chance to maintain some coherence through time, mainly because of close geographic proximity and deepening economic ties. It is strange to see how things have evolved in the last century, apparently going full circle... The currently united portions of the United States may also suffer the consequences of Trump's two-mandates reign, and tjey can be deeply harmed by the residual influence of the Trumpified Republican Party, in the sense that economic downfall and possible territorial fragmentation are real dangers at this point in time, perils that may or may not materialize in the coming weeks or months or years.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-widens-allied-net-against-chinas-submarines-10951771

Trumpian Axis Triumphant. The information published below may be a devious way to draw Caracas attention in the wrong direction, toward the eastern coastline, between Caraca and Cumana, while the first US blows may be intended in reality to fall instead in the opposite direction, on the western coastline, somewhere between Caracas and Maracaibo. There is a very exposed peninsula over there, almost an island, in the area of Punto Fijo, which is tied to the mainland through what appeared to be a very thin isthmus, easy to defend and covered by a national park. That peninsula would make for a perfect landing place by a Trumpian military force looking for an easy victory and eager to raise the winning chances of the Republican party in the next midterm elections. Will there be a shooting war between the (all too real) Trumpian Warlords and the (mainly imaginary) Maduro Druglords?

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7389384899746553857/

The deal will also deepen the economic and political ties between New Delhi and Kabul, and facilitate trade between India and Central Asia, and also between India and Europe. Afghanistan is poised to become an economic powerhouse in the coming years, in the wake of large-scale reconstruction after decades of conflict, starting in the 80s. Its great potential atems from many sources:

1) its geographical location, at the crossroads of Asia,

2) a burgeoning population and labor pool, and

3) advantageous low labor costs that should be an important factor in attracting flows of foreign investments from Russia, Japan, Iran, China, India, Europe and America.

https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-says-its-iran-port-granted-6-month-sanctions-waiver-by-us

China is stabilizing its southwestern flank, while America is fomenting war in the Caribbean area...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/myanmar-rebels-to-withdraw-from-two-towns-under-new-china-brokered

Ça rappelle évidemment la circumnavigation réalisée par des batiments militaires chinois tout autour de l'Australie il y a quelques mois. Il s'agissait là aussi d'envoyer un message clair aux puissances anglophones impliquées, l'Australie, mais aussi la Nouvelle-Zélande, les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et le Canada, à l'effet que la Chine peut elle aussi jouer au jeu des patrouilles d'intimidation qu'effectue (ou appuient) la plupart de ces puissances près des côtes chinoises. Dans le cas de l'escadre chinoise envoyée autour de l'Australie, la Chine en avait profité pour tenir des exercices au beau milieu de l'espace océanique séparant l'Australie de la Nouvelle-Zélande, montrant qu'elle peut interrompre à volonté les liaisons maritimes et aériennes qui unissent les deux États anglophones de l'Océanie en temps normal. Ici, le message s'adresse vraisemblablement à la nouvelle administration japonaise, en vue d'influer sur les négociations commerciales en cours avec les États-Unis, ainsi que dans le but de souligner aux Japonais qu'ils doivent rester scrupuleusement neutres advenant une éventuelle invasion de Taiwan s'ils ne veulent pas perdre les îlots disputés qu'occupe actuellement Tokyo près des Ryu-Kyus, voire même l'ensemble de cet archipel qui, autrefois, constituait un royaume tributaire de la Chine... Le message en question est cependant plus discret et moins offensant, puisque les navires chinois impliqués dans cette circumnavigation autour de trois des quatre grandes îles de l'archipel japonais:

A) ne sont pas des bâtiments militaires à plein titre, mais de simple navires de la garde côtière,<

B) qu'ils sont moins nombreux que ceux de la première escadre (deux navires, au lieu de trois) et

C) que le prétexte utilisé est plus crédible et semble avoir été choisi pour faire passer ce déplacement naval pour une simple mission de routine.

https://www.newsweek.com/map-china-ships-united-states-ally-10956011

Actually, that will make a lot more sense than the unwieldy, huge, complicated, costly and ill-conceived AUKUS scheme, designed to serves US needs first, those of Britain second and those of Australia a distant third. Adding Australia might drive cost down, through volume, avoid long-term entanglement in US military programs, benefit by the impressive ship-building capacity and capability that South Korea's shipyards can provide, and being more politically acceptable than continuing the present deal with a callous Trumpian administration that seems intent to attack Venezuela in order to please the far right voting crowd and create promotional videos to use in the next midterm elections...

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/south-korea-canada-and-a-middle-power-submarine-can-australia-join/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=1251e4fe8a-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-1251e4fe8a-668562871

Murdoch is no fool, obviously. Trump is a dangerous man, wielding too much power than what he can handle, He is seemingly about to start a made-up-for-TV war, more exactly a made-up-for-video war, with Venezuela, under the guise of anti-drugs countainment, but mainly for electoralist reasons. If you ever wondered why hundreds of millions of people the world over do not even bother to vote any more, that must be why. The worst enemy of democracy is not dictature, it is democratic politicians that are looking for votes at any cost. Democracy and demagoguery, however, goes hand in hand, like twin brothers. The world does not need China to be contained: it needs the American Empire to be held at bay, at the end of a ten-feet pole. The Eurasian Allies vs the Trumpian Axis of ineptness, that's probably a good way to describe what the new cold war is, what the Cold War 2.0 is slowing turning into. We're entering a new era...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-millar-82a566216/recent-activity/all/

Que l'Arabie saoudite souhaite conclure un pacte d'alliance militaire avec les États-Unis et lui acheter des chasseurs F-35 semble signaler une préférence envers l'environnement sécuritaire occidental, centré sur Washington, par opposition à un environnement sécuritaire eurasien, centré sur Beijing. L'Arabie saoudite vient tout juste de finaliser son admission à l'association économique des BRICS, dont font déjà partie plusieurs pays voisins, tels l'Égypte, l'Éthiopie, l'Iran et les Émirats arabes unis. Par ailleurs, Beijing a déjà signifié que la Palestine pourrait en faire partie, elle aussi, lorsqu'elle deviendra un État a part entière. Il n'est pas impossible qu'Israël soit aussi invité à s'y joindre un jour. Plusieurs pays bricsiens d'Asie, comme la Chine, la Russie, l'Iran, l'Inde et le Pakistan, entre autres, font aussi partie d'un autre groupement, l'Organisation de coopération de Shanghai, à caractère plus politique, militaire et sécuritaire. Il y a donc un recoupement possible entre les deux regroupements. Par contre, dans l'état actuel des choses, tenant compte des tensions géopolitiques qui persistent entre Washington et Beijing, il semble qu'il y ait de fortes chances que le désir de l'Arabie saoudite de se rapprocher politiquement et militairement des États-Unis lui ferme les portes à une éventuelle accession à la SCO.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/middleeast/mohammed-bin-salman-us-visit.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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